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The call follows revelations of another disturbing case of alleged child sexual abuse in a Cape York community.
Police are investigating the alleged rape of a six-year-old boy by a group of older boys in Kowanyama.
Dr Nelson is visiting several Cape York Peninsular communities today and says the State Government must do more to address child abuse.
"How is it that we can live in a country in 2008 where children could be raping children?" he said.
"This is a story that unfortunately follows a litany of others that have been well documented ... yet unfortunately in a day or so the story will disappear."
Police Minister Judy Spence says there is a cycle of abuse in Cape York Indigenous communities.
She says police in the communities are continuing to discover similar cases.
"What we are seeing of course is the level of Indigenous incarceration increase, so no one needs be surprised that more Aboriginal people are landing up in prison," she said.
"That's a good thing because we're getting those who would perpetrate these crimes, in the past we probably wouldn't have."
But she says there is no need for a Northern Territory-style intervention.
"We are very different to the Northern Territory," she said.
"The Northern Territory doesn't have police on their Indigenous communities, we do in Queensland.
"Wujal Wujal is the last community in Queensland to have police directly stationed there so what we've done over the last decade is put police into our communities.
"They haven't done that in other states."
Source: By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Posted January 24th, 2008 by seher
